Moderator
Dr. Rupa Chanda
Ms. Rupa Chanda is the Director of Trade, Investment and Innovation at UNESCAP. She has worked as an Economist at the IMF and briefly served as Head, UNESCAP Subregional Office for South and South-West Asia in New Delhi. Her research interests include the WTO, trade in services, regional integration and migration. She has undertaken research and professional assignments for international and Indian organizations and has published extensively in the form of books, journal articles, book chapters, and reports. She is active professionally as a research guide, reviewer, and member of several expert committees. She was member of the WHO’s Review Committee on the functioning of the International Health Regulations (2015-16) and the WHO’s Expert Advisory Group, International Recruitment of Health Personnel (2019-20).
Special Address
Ms. Prewprae Chumrum
Ms. Prewprae Chumrum has been appointed as Executive Director, Bureau of Trade in Services and Investment Negotiations, Department of Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Commerce of Thailand in early 2018, after engaged in bilateral affairs (Asia, Middle East and African regions) and multilateral negotiations under World Trade Organisation for more than 24 years. Prewprae has had various working background and experience on international economics, international relations including international negotiations on goods, services, investment environment, climate change, digital trade, etc. at bilateral, regional and multilateral level. She has been a lead negotiator for Thailand in various bilateral and ASEAN- dialogue FTAs and also ASEAN Co-Chair for Working Group on Trade in Services under AANZFTA, AJCEP and ACAFTA. Recently, Prewprae has taken up a Chair for ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) negotiation.
Dr. Hindol Sengupta
Dr. Hindol Sengupta is Vice President - Strategy at Invest India, the national investment promotion agency. He has been a Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He is an award-winning historian and author of 10 books.